Let me explain how I solved this mean issue:
In the catastrophic event I lose all my Macs and need to access the backup from another O/S, I'll probably boot into a "Hackintosh VM" or something. This has the advantage that my backup drive can also serve as bootable backup - it's HFS+ at the root. This is fixable by mounting it in Windows again and running chkdsk on it, but as it happened fairly often, it was rather inconvenient.įor this reason I went back to Mac sparsebundle, which comes free my home directory on a Carbon Copy Cloner-made backup. For instance, if you forget to dismount the image properly, the NTFS metadata may be corrupted and next time you'll be able to mount them in read only mode. I found that so formatted image could be accessed from Windows correctly, by mounting in via Windows version of TrueCrypt.
I created a blank (without filesystem) images with TrueCrypt, and then formatted them with NTFS. If you own or support both Windows and Mac machines, MacDrive 9 Standard can make your life much easier.Įditors' note: This is a review of the trial version of MacDrive 9.3.1.1 Standard.I have actually solved the need for cross-platform accessible encrypted backup by using TrueCrypt and NTFS-3G drivers for Mac. For instance, the MacDrive Disk Manager's drive list wouldn't or couldn't scroll until after we'd formatted a Mac drive.Ĭheaper alternatives: If all you want to do is transfer files between a Mac and PC, cheaper and easier options aren't hard to find (Dropbox, for example).
Consīalky disk list: Mac-to-Windows interoperability can be a bit slow or balky at times. Peace: MacDrive's peace symbol icon emphasizes the software's mission: cross-platform peace and seamless interoperability between the Mac and Windows worlds.Ĭreate Mac disks: MacDrive can create, format, and modify drives in Mac OS Standard (HFS), Mac OS Extended (HFS+), and Mac OS Extended (case-sensitive HFSX).Īdvanced options: We could prevent changes to Mac disks, customize MacDrive's compatibility with earlier versions of Windows and Mac OS, and select files to view in dual-format hybrid CDs and DVDs. MacDrive can repair damaged Mac disks, burn Mac-compatible CDs and DVDs, and do other things disk managers are supposed to do. Not just hard drives, but removable USB drives, too. With MacDrive 9 Standard, you can access, manage, and even create and format disk drives for Apple's Mac OS from inside Windows Explorer.
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